The Revenger's Tragedy Quotes

Act 1, Scene 1

• Duke, royal lecher, go grey-haired adultery (Vindice)
• Four excellent characters (Vindice)
• Accursed Palace (Vindice)
• The old duke poisoned (Vindice)
• Who o'er knew murder unpaid? (Vindice)
• Brother, I'll be that strange-composed fellow (Vindice)
• We must coin. Women are apt, you know, to take false money (Vindice)
• The Duchess' youngest son has played a **** on Lord Antonio's wife (Hippolito)
• On that religious lady! (Gratiana)
• The law's a woman (Vindice)
• For since my worthy father's funeral, my life's unnatural to me (Vindice)
• He was too wise to trust me with his thoughts (Gratiana)
• I'll quickly turn into another (Vindice)

Act 1, Scene 2

• Duchess, it is your youngest son (Duke)
• And if a *******'s wish might stand in force, would all the court were turned into a corpse (Spurio)
• Double adultery (Judge)
• Why, flesh and blood, my Lord, what should move men unto a woman else? (Junior Brother)
• Her beaty was ordained to be my scaffold (Junior Brother)
• Begot against the seventh commandment (Duchess)
• My revenge is just (Spurio)
• I was begot in imprudent wine and lust (Spurio)
• For indeed a ******* by nature should make cuckolds, because he is the son of a cuckold-maker (Spurio)

Act 1, Scene 3

• I ne'er had that disease o'th' mother (Vindice)
• I am past my depth in lust (Lussurioso)
• To entice and work his sister (Lussurioso)

Act 1, Scene 4

• Deemed it a nobler dowry for her name, to die with poison than to live with shame (Antonio)

Act 2, Scene 1

• Tell him my honour shall have a rich name, when several harlots share his with shame (Castiza)
• Has long desired your daughter (Vindice)
• There are too many poor ladies already; why should you vex the number (Vindice)
• Men know that know us we are so weak. their words can overthrow us (Gratiana)
• If she be still chaste, I'll ne'er call her mine (Gratiana)
• Virginity is paradise locked up... and twas decreed that man should keep the key (Gratiana)
• O were't not for gold and women, there would be no damnation (Vindice)

Act 2, Scene 2

• I'll piece him to his face (Vindice)

Act 2, Scene 3

• In sleep! I have great sins (Duke)
• I am amazed to death (Lussurioso)
• Brothers, my best release lies on your tongues, I pray persuade for me (Lussurioso)
• My hairs are white, and yet my sins are green (Duke)

Act 3, Scene 1

• Faiths are bought and sold (Supervacuo)
• The lady's death, and people's thoughts will soon be buried (Ambitioso)

Act 3, Scene 4

• Mty fault was sweet sport, which the world approves, I die for that which every woman loves (Junior Brother)

Act 3, Scene 5

• A delicious lip, a sparkling eye (Vindice)
• Sees ladies with false forms. You decieve men but cannot decieve worms (Vindice)
• Sh' has somewhat a grave look with her (Vindice)
• Now nine years vengeance crowd into a minute (Vindice)
• Nail down his tongue (Vindice)

Act 4, Scene 1

• He's a man/In whom much melancholy dwells (Hippolito)

Act 4, Scene 2

• A usuring father to be boiling in hell and his son and heir with a whore dancing over him (Vindice)